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ANNOUNCER: "Gunsmoke."

With Milburn Stone as Doc, Amanda

Blake as Kitty, Ken Curtis as Festus, Buck Taylor as Newly.

And starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

That must be a real interesting book you're reading.

Not really.

I noticed you haven't put it down.

It passes the time.

That's a real fine-looking boy, your brother.

He's not my brother.

Your son?

No.

Well, I think we can rule out grandmother.

She's Miss Colby, my governess.

She is?

Pleased to meet you, Miss Colby.

My name's Newly O'Brien.

Mr O'Brien.

I'm Johnny.

Johnny, pleased to meet you, too.

We're from Boston.

You are?

Well, you're a long way from home.

JOHNNY: Is that a real shooting gun, Mr. O'Brien?

That's real, all right.

I guess you need it for Indians.

Yeah, it might not be a bad idea to keep

your eyes peeled out there.

Johnny, come on over here.

You sit right here.

You can look out either side now.

Makes it easier for talking.

I mean, when you get finished with the book.

I certainly don't think I'll be through for at least a week.

I got lots of patience.

STAGE DRIVER: All right, folks, 20-minute stop

to rest the horses.

NEWLY: Ah.

Mr. Brown, how's everything in these parts?

Oh, fair to middling.

I swear, there's a strange kind of stewings in the air.

The air does have a funny feel to it.

Miss Colby, can I go play?

Yes, but don't go too far.

I won't.

This here part of a stage stop is called a walk around.

It's a chance for the passengers to get to know each other

and-- and talk.

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to break any traditions.

Well, thank you.

Just you and the boy traveling?

PATRICIA: Yes, his parents decided they wanted to take

a second honeymoon in Canada.

And Johnny's, uh, always wanted to see the West so here we are.

NEWLY: Hang onto your hat.

[laughter]

If time is on your hands, why don't you spend it in Dodge?

Hospitality is great.

You can have dinner at Del Monaco's, even a guided tour.

PATRICIA: I don't know.

I hear that Dodge is a pretty dangerous place.

Oh, it is, definitely.

So the guided tour provides a personal escort.

I promise not to let you out of my sight the entire evening.

[howling winds]

PATRICIA: Johnny!

NEWLY: Get to the shack.

We'll be safer there.

[coughing]

Get down.

Get closer to the wall.

Oh!

My leg.

I think his leg's broken.

Oh, no.

NEWLY: I'll try to find a splint.

Hang on, pardner.

It's all right.

It's all right.

Cowboys don't cry.

[hammering]

Whoa.

Mrs. Peary, how you be.

I know I hadn't ought to be asking but--

Carried the roof right off our house, Festus.

Ah, well, that's just pity.

Well, now, don't you fret none about the fixing.

Because quick as we all get our breath,

we're going put a new roof on your house for you.

Doc, they're still coming in.

I don't know where you're gonna put them all.

We'll manage.

Put a lot of folks in cots over in the old warehouse.

Squeezing people in every place.

Folks up and down the street are donating rooms.

You know, they're just marvelous.

We're going to make out all right.

The old man Crawford may be in trouble.

He didn't say anything, but looks to me

like he's limping pretty bad.

I'll drop in and see him tonight.

All right, and you go slow.

It's not going to help things if you fold up, you know.

DOC: I'll see you in just a minute.

All right, folks.

Sam's ready for you.

Plenty of good food inside.

Come on.

Don't be bashful.

Go ahead.

Go right on in.

Oh, Mrs. Ballard, why don't you bring the children in.

The bar is closed for a while.

Go ahead.

Go ahead.

How bad is it out there?

Some of the farms have been hit pretty bad,

but so far we've been lucky.

No report of deaths.

Rudy said that Shacktown is practically leveled.

Everybody's using the old mine for shelter.

Let me ride out there.

I'll be back in a while.

What's your prognosis, Newly?

He's doing fine, Doc.

He's a tough one.

Lateral fracture of the tibia but a clean break.

That's fine.

Young fella, I don't want you riding any bucking Broncos

for about a week.

You promise me that?

Yes, sir.

Newly, I'm going to be awful busy.

I've got about 40 calls I got to make.

And there's just not enough hours in this day.

Tell you what I'd like, for you to set

up a kind of an infirmary over in Del Monaco's.

Can you do that?

Well, Doc, maybe instead of having my own patients,

I can assist you.

After all, I haven't had too much experience.

I'm not worried about that.

You'll do fine.

Oh, doctor, since it looks like I'll be staying here in Dodge

for a while until Johnny can travel,

I've had some nursing experience.

I'd be more than glad to help out if I could.

Well, that's fine.

That's fine.

Thank you, Patricia, very much.

You can just stay and help Newly.

That'll be fine.

All right.

Oh, say, I tell you what I'm going to do.

I'm just going to leave you this bag, Newly, because I

got a spare up in the office.

I'll, uh, I'll see you tomorrow, young fellow.

[inaudible] going to take good care of you.

Why I quit medicine is a question I often ask myself.

The answer I get is that I was, well, restless.

At least that's the answer I give myself,

but I know it's not an honest one.

What is the answer, if that's not too personal a question.

Well, Doc says it's selfish.

We've had some long talks about it.

I remember in school and at the teaching hospital,

I was surrounded by misery and sickness.

And, well, it depressed me, that's all.

Well, I wouldn't call that selfishness.

I mean, there's a lot of people that

just aren't suited to medicine.

He's running a pretty high fever.

Doc had an answer.

He said there are people that could perform

but don't want to, meaning me, shying away

from their responsibilities.

Well, that's the way Doc is.

That's the way he feels about medicine.

He just plain loves working with people.

Well, from what I saw today, so do you.

NEWLY: Well, plow a field for somebody

or go to a barn-building, that kind of helping people I like.

But I don't like the responsibility

of having a life in my hands.

Is that why you didn't want to be on your own today?

Well, it wasn't easy, but I'm glad you were with me.

But you would have done just fine on your own.

You were so much control, and you're so good with people.

I did the best I could.

Some men have a special gift, Newly.

It's-- it's kind of an instinct for healing.

I think you have it.

And I think it would be a shame if you

didn't do anything with it.

Well, I've got to go now.

Oh.

All right?

Yes, I'm just really tired.

And we've got a long day tomorrow.

You get some sleep tonight.

Get a good night's rest.

Tell me something, how long do you figure on staying in Dodge?

Oh, well, that depends on Johnny.

How long do you think it will be before he can travel?

Oh, I'd say 99 years.

I could be a very old lady.

Patricia, tomorrow morning, you and I

ought to have breakfast together and go

over the list of patients.

All right.

Goodnight, Mr. O'Brien.

It was Newly at least once today.

Newly.

Wait a second, I'm going to walk you home.

Look at that, Matt. [inaudible].

They've been on their feet 24 hours,

don't even seem to bother them a bit.

Maybe they're talking medicine.

Oh, sure, you bet they are.

FESTUS: I'll tell you, I never saw

so many barns get tore down.

We're going to have to do a heap of barn-raising

when this here dust clears.

KITTY: Oh.

FESTUS: Doc, Matthew.

Well, I've seen you two looking better.

Well, I've felt better, too, I can tell you that.

KITTY: How about some coffee?

Sounds fine.

Sam, can we have some more coffee?

SAM: Coming right up.

How's everything south of the river, Fest?

Oh, it ain't too bad, Matthew.

They didn't get tore up too bad out yonder.

How's the medical situation, Doc?

A lot better than it was this morning.

Well, it's a good thing you got Newly to help you.

Well, by the looks of it, I don't know just

how much help he's going to be.

Newly's in conference with his nurse.

Newly?

Newly.

I'd like to let y'all in on the most sensible

decision I ever come to.

She doesn't know it yet, but Miss Patricia Colby

is about to become Mrs. Newly O'Brien.

Indians call this the Valley of Thunder.

PATRICIA: Why is that?

NEWLY: I guess because on a still night,

they could hear horses' hooves pounding across the prairie

so loud it sounded like thunder.

As long as anybody can remember, I

guess wild mustangs have been using that valley there

and the canyons to the west.

PATRICIA: Oh, aren't they beautiful, Newly?

NEWLY: They sure are.

[horses galloping]

You know, when I was a little girl,

I used to tell myself that someday I'd come out

West and have a horse ranch.

Really?

But you stayed in Boston instead?

Well, when you're young, you dream dreams.

Now, there's half the trouble with the world,

people settling for dreams.

When you want something, you shouldn't just

sit there and dream about it.

PATRICIA: Your philosophy of life, doctor?

NEWLY: That's right.

Come on, I want to show you someplace.

Whoa.

This here's a place nobody's been able to make a go of.

It's abandoned now for about two years.

Why?

Is there something wrong with the land?

No, the ground's too rocky for anything other than grass.

But there's plenty of that.

It's kind of brown now, but come spring,

early summer, it gets so green around here,

make your eyes ache.

You're saying that it would be good for horses.

You bet.

There's 2,000 acres here, running up into those canyons.

You could run 100, 150 head of horses here easy.

Why hasn't anyone tried to, uh, raise them here?

Well, they have.

It just takes a lot of patience.

What's required is somebody who can

look that far into the future.

Yes, I can see somebody with that kind of vision

making a go of it.

Oh, look at those clouds, Newly.

Aren't they lovely?

Step number one is to buy it.

Well, you're not suggesting that I--

Mr. Budkin at the bank, I'll bet he'd go for whatever terms

a serious buyer wanted to make.

Oh, but that-- you can't be serious.

I mean, it would take money to stock it.

Well, I forgot to mention, there's this fellow in Dodge.

He runs a gun shop and he saved a few dollars.

Wouldn't take much to coax him in as a partner.

Newly, it would be impractical.

It would be--

A childish dream.

Well, no, not that.

It takes a man to run a horse ranch.

I got that figured out, too.

You need a husband.

And I know somebody who wants to marry you so much,

he can't sleep nights anymore.

You know what we could do?

We could take some of these cuttings

and plant them up there by the porch.

We?

I can't sleep either.

Uh, I don't know if I heard you.

But did I hear you--

PATRICIA: Sh.

[knocking]

DOC: Come in.

I hope you're not busy, Dr. Adams.

I saw your light on.

DOC: No, come right on in.

I don't want to be a bother, but I wondered

if you would have any tonic pills on hand

like these I've been taking.

I may have.

I got about every pill imaginable, I guess.

I-- I, uh-- how long have you been taken these, Patricia?

Oh, for quite a while.

Our family doctor in Boston prescribed

them several years ago.

He said they'd improve my appetite,

uh, among other benefits.

Well, yes, I, uh-- I guess so.

I guess they-- here, uh, just come on over here

and have a seat.

Patricia, I want you to sit down right in this chair.

Thank you.

Well, that's it.

That's just fine.

Now, look at me, right straight, right to there.

I don't think any doctor worth his salt

would prescribe for anybody without examining them first.

Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

Let's have-- what's that?

Where'd you get this bruise?

PATRICIA: Oh, you just breathe on me and I bruise.

I don't know.

I must have gotten that during the cyclone, I guess.

I'll tell you why.

I want to take a blood sample from you.

Blood sample?

DOC: It's routine, Patricia, just routine.

It'll kind of help with my diagnosis, you see.

Anything you say.

By the way, are you busy on Sunday?

Sunday?

No, no, I can't think of anything.

Why?

Do you think that, um, you could find time

to be best man at a wedding?

Wedding, who?

Mine and Newly's.

I know, it's very sudden.

Sudden or not, I think it's just wonderful, just marvelous.

Newly's a fine fellow.

You're both going to be very happy, I'll tell you that.

I think it's just wonderful.

MATT DILLON: Well, they're not wasting

much time setting that wedding date for Sunday, are they?

Well, here's to the new couple.

You look really tired back, Doc.

Drink up.

It'll make you sleep better.

Tomorrow's a brand new day.

Some days just, uh, just stay the same, Kitty.

Something bothering you, Doc?

Yes, there is, Matt.

A long time ago, I swore an oath.

It went something like this. "Whatever

I may see or hear in the lives of men,

which ought not to be spoken abroad, I will not divulge."

I swore to that.

All of my years of practice, I've never broken that oath.

But now, I need help.

And I hope I may be forgiven.

What is it, Doc?

They've set the date for the wedding.

Yeah.

DOC: Newly sent Festus to Garden City for the preacher.

What's wrong with that?

Patricia's dying.

KITTY: Dying.

She has leukemia.

Leukemia, I've never heard of it.

I'm not surprised, Kitty.

There's very little known about it.

In simple language, the white cells run wild,

just completely out of control.

It's, uh, it's fatal.

How long she got, Doc?

Oh, Matt, I, I couldn't-- I couldn't say that.

See, Patricia's such a strong girl.

But it's my considered opinion that she has a very short time.

You know, I've always felt that my patients

should know everything, that is, if I think they can take it.

I think they have a right to make their own peace,

settle their own affairs.

But you don't feel that way about her?

Matt, I, I just don't know how I feel about Patricia.

Here's a girl who, who thinks she

has this whole wonderful life ahead of her.

She thinks it's just beautiful.

Now, do I have the right to, to rob her of that?

The joys of, of everyday living, do

I have that kind of authority?

Do you want my opinion, Doc?

Yes, I do.

Well, I know that I wouldn't want

anyone taking my last remaining happy moments away from me.

Doc, is there any way she could harm herself

by not knowing about it?

Physically?

No, none whatever.

Well, that's your vote for not telling her.

What about Newly, Doc?

I believe Newly must be told.

I don't believe it.

Newly, I've spent hours and hours not

wanting to believe it myself.

But here are the results of my findings.

The, the outward symptoms, the results of a blood workup.

NEWLY: I don't care about your workups, Doc.

They don't make any sense.

Newly, the evidence is right here.

Evidence?

You told me yourself we don't know

anything about blood diseases.

Well, it's true.

We know very little.

But there's one thing we do know for sure,

and that's the symptoms of leukemia.

Wait a minute, let me explain something to you, Newly.

The principle of cellular pathology

was established a long time ago in Germany by a doctor

by the name of Rudolph Virchow.

Now, since then, it's considered a, a positive medical fact.

Have you told Patricia anything about this?

No.

Well, don't, don't, because it's not true.

It can't be.

There's nothing wrong with her.

She's had-- she's been doing a lot of hard work

this past week.

It's not going to happen, Doc.

Somebody who never wanted to hurt anybody, only

wanted to help.

It's not going to happen.

I'm telling you, you and your blood studies are wrong.

I'm telling you--

Newly, I don't blame you for disputing my diagnosis.

I don't blame you at all.

I kind of expected it.

Now, here, I don't think you can dispute the diagnostic fact.

Here's a letter I want you to mail yourself to Dr. Berman,

St. Louis General Hospital.

He is the outstanding authority on blood study in the country.

I've asked him to send his findings directly to you.

Doc, I'm marrying that girl.

I'm marrying her.

We're going to have a long and happy life together.

PATRICIA: Hm, waw.

I'm going to miss you, Miss Colby.

I'm going to miss you, too, Johnny.

A little something for a wedding present, Pat.

Oh, thank you.

That's very kind of you Mr. Henderson.

Not at all.

Mr. Brian, you've captured a real prize.

Thank you, sir, I know that.

Bye, Miss Colby.

Bye-bye, Johnny.

Thanks for the hat, Mr. O'Brien.

You bet.

Oh, well, I am late for a last-minute fitting.

Oh.

What's wrong?

I've just been feeling the heat all day.

Don't be late for rehearsal. -I won't.

Newly, I just got back.

And, and the Reverend, he said he can't get here

from Garden City tonight, but he guaranteed

that he'll be here tomorrow.

PATRICIA: Oh.

FESTUS: Now, don't fret, Miss Patricia.

That don't mean a thing.

See, the Reverend, he wants us to run through all

the proceedings without him.

And I know just exactly how it's all did.

DOC: Festus.

Doc, I mean, where everybody stands and stuff like that.

Why, there ain't nothing to it.

I recollect when my grandma, great-grandma Axel Sneedy

went and got herself married up for the third time,

I was right there with my eyeball peeled on everything.

That's not what I want to talk to you here.

Do you know it was the funniest thing about Grandma?

She, she never would tell nobody how old she was.

And I guarantee you that she was putting eyes old as old Doc

here. Ha ha.

All right, let's get started.

Miss Patricia, you come with me now.

You come right up here.

Sam, now, see, since Patricia's papa ain't here

to what they call give the bride away,

you're going to play like you're her papa, see.

So you stand right there, and you take a hold of his arm

like that.

Now, Miss Kitty, now, if you'll just herd the youngins right

up here in the front like that.

And you stand behind them right there like that.

All right, and then, you come down when, when they come.

Matthew, now you, you stand right up here,

you and old Doc, right along about in there,

see, and pretend like I'm standing with you,

but I ain't, see.

What I'm going to be doing, I'm going to be right here.

Newly, you're right there like that, see.

And what you're doing, see, you're, you're waiting

from your missus to come sashaying down to meet

up with you, don't you see.

All right, Miss Baker.

[ORGAN MUSIC, "HERE COMES THE BRIDE"]

FESTUS: Now, you see there. Ain't that plum easy?

Ain't nothing to it at all.

Now, the only thing you have to, take everything nice and slow.

Now, now, the two of you, you just kind of stand there

and noggle one another like fellows and gals

do that's been a-courtin' for a spell.

And then the Reverend, he's a-fixin'

to say things like, he says, to kind

of be polite, like, you're the prettiest gal that I

have ever saw.

And, and I ain't never saw no handsomer fellow

than you and stuff like that.

And then, he'll say, Patricia, do you take this here fellow

for better or for worser, to do what he tells you

and to, to make him happy.

And you say, I do.

I do.

FESTUS: Now, Newly, you say, I take this here gal--

I take this here gal--

FESTUS: To love and protect and stuff like that.

I want to love her and protect her.

Till death do us part.

Till death do us part.

Right, now, go to work and kiss her.

See, that there's your reward for standing

around here and waiting, see.

Go on, go ahead on and kiss her.

Forever.

[crowd celebrating]

MATT DILLON: Well, congratulations, Newly.

PATRICIA: Oh, Kitty, bye-bye.

[crowd cheering]

NEWLY: That was some wedding.

It sure was.

I come out here yesterday to paint it,

but so many odds and ends need fixing.

I want it to always look just the way it does now.

You do?

Yes, I do.

Well, maybe, not always.

Well, I tell you something.

If I don't get that roof fixed, we'll

be running around with buckets in our hands some night.

Well, we certainly wouldn't want that, would we.

No, we wouldn't.

No, we wouldn't.

-I got a surprise for you. -Yeah?

Uh huh.

Ah.

It's yours.

Oh.

Oh, he's beautiful.

Oh, Newly, I do love you so very, very much.

Oh, hello, Mr. Burke.

Morning, Miss O'Brien.

Newly around?

No, he's, um, down by the creek in the Western section,

little argument with the beavers.

Well, a wire just came in for him.

Maybe I can take it over to him.

Well, he might have started back by now.

You might miss him.

I'll see that he gets it.

How's everything coming along out here?

Lots to do, but I've never enjoyed

anything so much in my life.

Say, maybe you better open it up.

If it's important, I can take it to him right away.

PATRICIA: Hm.

[READING] "Confirm prognosis by Dr. Adams."

Oh, it's just a confirmation of some sort.

You take care of yourself.

Bye-bye.

"Confirm prognosis by Dr. Adams.

If your patient desires, I will examine.

But I concur with your findings and conclusions

as to young female being terminal."

as to young female being terminal."

BOSTON DOCTOR [VOICEOVER]: I want you

to take these pills, Patricia.

No, no, just a tonic for the blood.

Uh, incidentally, try to take things easier.

Get plenty of rest.

DOC [VOICEOVER]: Patricia, I'd like to take

a blood sample from you.

How'd you get that bruise there?

FESTUS [VOICEOVER]: Till death do us part.

NEWLY [VOICEOVER]: Forever.

BOSTON DOCTOR [VOICEOVER]: Plenty of sleep.

Plenty of rest.

Just a tonic for the blood, for the blood, for the blood,

for the blood!

NEWLY: Patricia!

Hey, hold on.

What are you trying to do?

You're crying.

No, no, it's, it's the wind.

What's wrong?

Do you hear it?

I don't hear anything.

PATRICIA: The world is so alive.

NEWLY: Come on over here and sit down.

What's all that running and riding for?

It's just something I felt like doing.

Well, you might have broken your neck.

It's funny.

What's funny, besides you?

Things we're afraid of.

What have you got to be afraid of?

Just little things.

They don't matter.

Sleepy?

Yes, I'm tired.

Sleep for a while.

Newly, do you remember that you said

we had to talk about the spring, about

the, the things we had to do?

We've got plenty of time for that.

No, now.

Now?

Yes.

Well, the first thing we're going

do before winter is dig us a root cellar.

And then we're going to roof the house.

And then, I think behind the barn,

we'll put us up a regular hen house.

And the, the added room.

It's for our son.

PATRICIA: Our son.

I'll start building it the first thing come spring.

Patricia?

Patricia!

God, please help me.

She loved wildflowers, Doc.

She loved everything wild.

Whatever was put on this earth, she saw as simple and good.

Strange, Doc, we can't even explain

the disease that took her.

No, not yet.

NEWLY: Why, Doc?

Why her?

Why her?

I don't understand, Doc.

DOC: Well, Newly, if you're a doctor,

there's a lot you don't understand.

You spend a lot of time wondering why some of us

are taken, some of the best of us,

for no apparent reason at all.

But I've learned to look at it this way.

Perhaps there is a reason.

There must be a reason.

You know, the world needs gunsmiths.

There's no doubt about that at all.

But it needs doctors, good doctors, an awful lot more.

And that's what you could be.

You could be a good doctor.

You've got the feel for it.

You'd be fine.

I practiced medicine for 40 years.

And in that time, I've learned a little something.

It sure'd make me happy if I knew someone

that I could pass on that knowledge

to, someone that really cared.

When do we start, Doc?

Right now.

Tell you what, you come by the office about 6 o'clock tomorrow

morning, we'll just start right off--

ANNOUNCER: Stay tuned for exciting scenes

from our next "Gunsmoke."

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